Wayfarer

According to reports, they can’t stand each other. I think Joyce passes the pub test for ‘despicable’ in a lot of people’s eyes (mine included).

Well Australian politics has just taken a giant leap backwards.

You should tell him.

Naturalism assumes nature is lawful. The question 'why is it lawful' cannot have a naturalistic answer, because it's asking a metaphysical question, a...

I think 'creating and releasing new forms of life' is a bit of an exagerration. I recall there was a Chinese scientists a couple of years back who use...

Actually I had a recent thread on this, Platonic Realism and Scientific Method. I think the obvious answer is, they evolved, and I think that's true. ...

I don't see logic as empirical in the sense of being 'dependent on experience'. It can be tested or validated against experience - if you use logic to...

The first question I have is whether the 'plethora of possible worlds' is simply a figment of the imagination. That there might be 'other worlds' or '...

You notice how you've subtly made the mind or self an object by asking this question - an 'it'. The mind, the self are not an object. There is no 'it'...

It’s a big term. Try googling it. ‘inventing a why’ is a precise definition of subjectivism. All I said was, what you mean by ‘rationalism’ is really ...

It is precisely the view advocated by Dawkins & Dennett to liberate mankind from the delusion of spirituality.

You’re like.a tonsured cleric hammering the pulpit. Heresy!

It is a simple fact that Galilean science dispensed with the notion of final and formal cause and that the notion of teleology was banished from the b...

I wouldn’t acknowledge it, because I think it’s a caricature of history. As I’ve said, you hold a very one-eyed, black v white image of history but th...

One kind of property that minds have, that matter does not, is the subject of logic. Such principles as ‘the law of the excluded middle’, and by exten...

Yet I think he’s actually rather like the Pharisees in the NT. Thinks he knows, but doesn’t possess real wisdom. I think he’s a stand-in for what we w...

Isn’t that exactly what the article I linked to calls into question? ‘Back in 1961, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Eugene Wigner outlined a thought...

As per the quote I posted in my first response, I think as a result of Cartesian dualism in popular thought that a lot of people are caught up in a pe...

:up: This is a much better primer than the video (which incidentally I now recall I did watch most of a couple of weeks back.) Although it's been rein...

I've watched a lot of his videos, but when he described Bohr and Heisenberg's ideas as 'kooky', that's an instant dealbreaker as far as I'm concerned....

In a debate over materialism vs idealism, the implications of science can't be ignored. And since the discovery of quantum physics, those implications...

Ideal opportunity for you to come in and make brief snide comments. Isn't that what you most enjoy about this forum?

No, only a suggestion the threads be merged, which the mods sometimes do when they're very close in meaning. No big deal though.

I’ve listened to many of his videos, and learned a lot from them, but I think he’s weak on the philosophy. // Like, at around 1:59 he briefly describe...

Quantum mechanics is a physical theory, but the nature of theory is never a matter for physics. It's the true nature of the wavefunction which is at i...

All well and good, but I don't want to jump the gun. I would like to see how the ideas develop in the course of the dialogues, rather than interpretin...

The modern definition of 'rationalism' is 'provable by empirical science' or mathematicazation of same. Basically it always comes down to one or anoth...

Just setting the record straight is all.

I’m not the one mixing up here.

A disputant in search of an argument?

The whole thing was a meta-debate - a debate about what was being debated. Pfhorrest nailed it.

I’m sure the prosecution of Socrates was political, with his supposed atheism being a pretext. I’d like to read something about that too.

That is in line with my understanding of Plato. Still can’t say if it *is* the case, but I’d sure like it to be.

Neuroscience cannot explain logic, rather, you have to use logic to learn brain science. I’m not making this up: one of the articles I’ve been referri...

No. They are saying that everything there is to know about the mind, can be known by way of the objective sciences. And that's all I have to say at th...

I'll let this quote make the point for me: Bolds added. That's what I've been saying throughout, if it isn't clear, apologies for that. But they're st...

It is contested by all those who advocate physicalism, it's the very point at issue. Designating it 'trivially true' is simply a deflection.

I don't think your thinking is precise enough to appreciate the distinctions that being made. If you're happy with the notion that everything is just ...

Only know because she mentioned it on a thread.

Please show me where I've done that. As far as I'm concerned that is what I've been arguing against. So you would say that when a biologist observes l...

I will have another try, then. I think it's a priori. The skull is not transparent. The cornea is, and light strikes the receptors in the retina, but ...

And I've never seen anything from you that indicates you understand what I'm talking about. Fault may well be at my end, but again, there's nothing I ...

Humans are objects only to other humans! And furthermore, treating humans as objects is dehumanising (unless you're a demographer or epidemiologist et...

I don't see how you can't discern the distinction between subject and object. Balls and hammers and rocks are objects, and that humans are rational se...

I shouldn't have to explain that. Science went looking for the fundamental constituents of physical reality. What did they find? Some references: http...

Yes you may be right. But he pointed the way, I think. BTW, a good single page primer on Kant is this. What do you mean 'cut off'? Objects appear to u...

I really have tried, many, many times in the past. Let me have another go. I've already said, in this thread, that I'm an empical realist. As I unders...

In that case, you misunderstand my position, as often, but with the amount of incoming flak, I can't really deal with it right now. @"Banno" - that pa...